# morro
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish morro.

### Noun

morro (plural morros)
* A round hill or point of land.

#### Usage notes

* A Morro Castle is a castle on a hill.

## Catalan
### Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps onomatopoeic.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈmo.ru]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmo.ro]

### Noun

morro m (plural morros)
* snout (long nose of an animal)
    Synonym: musell
* nose (of a vehicle)

#### Derived terms

* amorrar
* beure a morro
* morral
* morrejar
* morrió
* morrut

### Further reading

* “morro” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “morro”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “morro” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “morro” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Galician
### Etymology 1

Unknown. From Vulgar Latin *murrum (“snout”); the word extends along the Iberian peninsula, southern France, Italy and south Germany, and is perhaps originally onomatopoeic.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmoro̝/

#### Noun

morro m (plural morros)
* snout
    Synonym: fociño
* (figurative, colloquial, in the plural) lips
    Synonym: beizos

##### Related terms

* Morrazo

#### References

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “morro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “morro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “morro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “morro”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

morro
* first-person singular present indicative of morrer

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈmo.ʁu/ [ˈmo.hu]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈmo.ʁu/ [ˈmo.hu]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈmo.ʁu/ [ˈmo.χu]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈmo.ʁo/ [ˈmo.ho]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈmo.ʁu/
* Rhymes: -oʁu
* Hyphenation: mor‧ro

### Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *murrum, *morrum (“mound, hillock”), cognate with Occitan morre.

#### Noun

morro m (plural morros)
* a landform with elevation intermediate between that of a hill and that of a small mountain
* (Brazil, especially Rio de Janeiro) a slum built on a hill or on uneven ground

#### See also

* (hill): cerro (usually smaller than a morro), colina (smaller than a morro), monte (larger than a morro), outeiro
* (slum): bairro de lata (Portugal), favela (Brazil), musseque (Angola)

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

morro
* first-person singular present indicative of morrer

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *murrum, *morrum (“mound, hillock”), cognate with Occitan morre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmoro/ [ˈmo.ro]
* Rhymes: -oro
* Syllabification: mo‧rro

### Noun

morro m (plural morros)
* hill
* snout (long nose of an animal)
    Synonyms: hocico, trompa
* (figuratively) mouth
    Synonym: pico
* hillock
* cheek; cheekiness
* pebble
* headland
* (Mexico) guy; dude; kiddo
* (colloquial, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador) Mexican calabash (Crescentia alata)
    Synonyms: morro, cutuco

#### Derived terms

* amorrar
* andar al morro
* beber a morro
* echarle morro
* estar de morro
* estar de morros
* jugar al morro
* morrear
* pasar por los morros
* por el morro

### Further reading

* “morro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
* “morro”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010